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From 1402–1404 the Black Death hit Iceland for the first time and killed approximately half the population there - but there is no evidence that it reached Greenland. [21] The last written record of the Norse Greenlanders documents a marriage in 1408 at Hvalsey Church , whose ruins are the best-preserved of the Norse buildings of that period.
Herjolfsnes (Danish: Herjolfsnæs) was a Norse settlement in Greenland, 50 km northwest of Cape Farewell.It was established by Herjolf Bardsson in the late 10th century and is believed to have lasted some 500 years.
Qilakitsoq is an abandoned settlement and an important archaeological site in Greenland.It became known as the discovery location of eight mummified corpses from the Thule period.
Sævar, Kristján and Tryggvi were convicted for killing Guðmundur, while Albert was convicted for helping to hide the body. Sævar, Kristján and Guðjón were later convicted for killing Geirfinnur Einarsson, while Erla was convicted of perjury after she implicated her half-brother and others in the disappearance. [15] [16]
Helge Marcus Ingstad (30 December 1899 – 29 March 2001) [1] was a Norwegian explorer. In 1960, after mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the province of Newfoundland in Canada.
Other explanations have also been offered, including soil erosion due to overgrazing and the effects of the Black Death. [6] [7] Major parts of the Eastern Settlement, including Brattahlíð, the homestead of Erik the Red, were included on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2017 as Kujataa Greenland: Norse and Inuit Farming at the Edge of the ...
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During the Norse period, Vatnahverfi was initially settled by kinsmen of Erik the Red who accompanied him in a large exodus out of Iceland in 985 AD. The Greenlander's Saga states that “men who went abroad with Eirik took possession of land in Greenland” and includes in a list of founding chieftains a man named Hafgrim who claimed “Hafgrímsfjörð and Vatnahverfi.”